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Pattie Boyd in Ossie Clark | 1966 - 1974
People say I was Ossie’s muse. He liked to make clothes for women who looked like women, with busts and waists, narrow hips and long legs—and I had all of those. He used to say I had “glass ankles” and some of the designs were called “Pattie.”
Pattie Boyd, Wonderful Tonight: George Harrison, Eric Clapton, and Me
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Green Lantern #50 (March 1994)
"EMERALD TWILIGHT," Finale! Hal Jordan goes full supervillain, and nothing will ever be the same again (for about 10 years).
Last issue ended with Hal, usually the hero of this comic, attempting to steal the power of every Green Lantern in the universe via their Central Power Battery, only to be stopped by Sinestro, usually the villain of this comic. Hal, driven mad by the destruction of his city and obsessed with getting the power to un-destroy it, tells Sinestro he'll kill him if he doesn't get out of his way, but Sinestro ain't buying it -- he still thinks he's talking to the Hal Jordan who appeared in the Super Friends cartoons.
Hal demonstrates how serious he is by nearly blowing Sinestro's pants off with all those GL rings he stole last issue. Sinestro points out that one ring vs. ten rings isn't very sporting, so Hal actually drops the extra ones so they can have a fair fight. I guess resurrecting Hal's loved ones as soon as possible isn't as important as proving to a purple jackass that he can beat him without unfair advantages.
So, Hal and Sinestro start fighting as the increasingly worried Guardians of the Universe watch on. Sinestro tries to get under Hal's skin by telling him about the time the Guardians begged him to take this sad little Earthling and turn him into "half" the Green Lantern Sinestro was, but Hal isn't in the mood for fight scene banter right now. What starts as a classic power ring battle (constructs, energy blasts) soon devolves into two angry dudes beating the crap out of each other, until Hal finally gets his arms around Sinestro's neck...
...and breaks it. Hal doesn't even let out a dramatic "NOOOOOOOO," like a proper superhero. He just mutters "damn you" and walks away, leaving Sinestro's mangled body on the ground.
Now no one else stands between Hal and the Central Battery -- or so he thinks, until Kilowog comes back for another round. Despite having no ring, Kilowog gives Hal a good beating as he tries to make him think about the consequences of draining the Power Battery (you know, like murdering every GL currently in space or in a fight somewhere). Kilowog tells Hal he may have killed Sinestro, but he isn't evil like him yet. He can still stop. Hal replies: "No. I can't." Then he confirms it by turning one of his best friends into a pile of bones.
Hal drops his ring, saying he doesn't deserve it anymore... and besides, he won't need it after absorbing the Central Battery's power. Hal walks up to the Battery and all the Guardians are there, but without any GLs around, they can't really do anything but lecture him. With tears in his eyes, Hal tells them: "What's going to happen is going to happen. It has to. You can't stop it... and neither can I." It's like Hal knows they're all merely pawns to a higher power: yes, Green Lantern editor Kevin Dooley.
It's only once Hal has entered the battery that the other Guardians turn to Ganthet and are like "okay, fine, let's try that plan you mentioned last issue." As the Battery begins to collapse, the Guardians perform a ritual where they send all their lifeforce to Ganthet (which you can tell because they're getting even older and wrinklier). Finally, the Battery explodes and Hal emerges with a new costume, a new more villain-esque hairdo, and, although we don't know it yet, a new name: PARALLAX.
Parallax walks across the Guardians' shriveled up bodies and angrily steps on his old GL ring before flying off into space. Then, Ganthet rises from a pile of corpses and puts the broken ring back together (and gives it a redesign, while at it). He says that, as the last Guardian of the Universe, he'll make sure that his brothers' ideals live on, then turns himself into a ball of energy headed for Earth.
Meanwhile, the same young dude who saw Hal flying to Oa in GL #48 comes out of a nightclub to get some air and spots another "falling star" in the sky, only this one is actually falling. In fact, it's heading directly for him. It turns out to be Ganthet, who lands right in front of this understandably confused clubgoer, tells him "You shall have to do," and hands him Hal's refurbished ring.
Without saying much else, Ganthet turns back into green energy and disappears. After confirming that the hobo who was sleeping in this alley also saw "a blue little guy in a red dress disappear" (for what it's worth), the guy decides to put on the ring -- and suddenly finds himself wearing a Green Lantern costume. "Oh man," he says, "I think my life just got a lot more complicated."
Haha, you don't know the half of it, buddy.
Plotline-Watch:
Things we know about Kyle Rayner so far: 1) he likes Nine Inch Nails, based on his shirt, 2) sometimes he dances so hard that he has trouble breathing, and 3) if a little blue man in an alley tells him to do something, he does it. Perfect superhero material. Things we don't know about Kyle Rayner yet: that his name is Kyle Rayner.
I've always liked the contrast between the way Hal was recruited to the Corps in 1959's Showcase #22 (with a speech about how fearless and honest he is) and the way Kyle was recruited in this issue (with a shrug and a "you'll do").
The Guardians did approach Sinestro about training Hal, as told in Green Lantern: Emerald Dawn II #1 (1991), but there was no begging involved. In fact, they forced him to do it. I guess he showed him in the end when his trainee wound up destroying the Corps (and killing him, but still).
Kilowog (RIP) tells Hal "I know what it's like to lose yer home, the folks ya love..." and it's true: he lost his planet twice. Bolovax Vik was destroyed during Crisis on Infinite Earths, but Kilowog managed to preserve everyone's minds inside his ring. Then, as soon as he found a new planet for his people in Green Lantern Corps #218 (1987), Sinestro blew it up again, permanently killing everyone this time. By Hal's logic, Kilowog should have turned himself into a DOUBLE Parallax long ago.
Kilowog also mentions that Hal has gone into the Central Battery twice before: first to save the day at the end of Emerald Dawn, and then to try to save the day in Green Lantern #6 (1990), although it didn't work out so well the second time because a crazy Guardian had already taken that power for himself. You know, they really should have put a door on that thing or something.
I don't remember if the hobo who was sleeping in the alley when Kyle got the ring will appear again, but I'm giving him a tag anyway. Wonder if they've ever done an alternate reality story about what if he'd become the All-New Green Lantern...
Guy-Watch:
Guy Gardner: Warrior #18 marks the start of the "Emerald Fallout" storyline, which will reunite Guy with his old pal Hal. It kicks off with Guy's yellow power ring (which feeds off GL ring energy) suddenly exploding and showing him a vision of Hal killing Sinestro, Kilowog's corpse, and Parallax emerging from the Battery. Guy, however, seems more concerned with the fact that the ring isn't working now, so he takes it to Blue Beetle, who can't resist the opening for a dick joke.
Beetle ends up giving Guy a prototype of the EXTREME '90s armor he built for Booster Gold (incidentally, based on Kilowog's old designs), which is somehow even more EXTREME and more '90s. Guy has some trouble adjusting to it, but grows to like it.
Next, Guy visits his on-and-off girlfriend Ice at the Arctic Circle, where she's quite literally chilling as she figures some stuff out -- as seen in the Justice League America series, she recently lost her dad after he was murdered by her evil brother, who also died, and then she gained vaguely defined new powers for vaguely defined reasons. Also, she went from modest clothes and no cleavage to an exotic dancer suit and all of the cleavage. The '90s were hard on everyone.
Just when it looks like Ice and Guy are about to reconcile, there's a huge explosion that knocks her out -- it's that Militia asshole who tried to kill Guy last issue, who just shot himself out of a submarine's cannon to finish the job. Will Guy ever catch a break?! NEXT ISSUE: Not in this storyline, he won't.
#green lantern#ron marz#darryl banks#romeo tanghal#hal jordan#sinestro#guardians of the universe#kilowog#ganthet#kyle rayner#guy gardner#blue beetle#ice#justice league#militia#green lantern corps#quorum#hobo who was sleeping in the alley when kyle got the ring#oh yeah and also bivvix the talking crocodile green lantern dies in the guy gardner issue rip bivvix the talking crocodile green lantern
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Senate Chamber
Program for Friday: Senate will resume consideration of the House Message to accompany H.R. 4366, Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024. Senators should expect a live quorum at approximately 10 a.m., with the motion to invoke cloture on the motion to concur ripening at 12 noon.
The deadline for the six appropriations bills in this minibus is midnight. The Senate is expected to vote on several amendments today, all of which will be defeated, otherwise the bill would have to return to the Senate. Expect a vote early this afternoon and President will sign it this evening. This will end the drama for 30% of the Federal Government, setting their funding for the rest of the fiscal year (five and a half months).
The deadline for the other six bills is March 22nd. Two weeks away.
#Senate#u.s. senate#government shutdown?#congress#minibus#H.R. 4366#Consolidated Appropriations Act 2024#FY2024#vote#quorum#debate#amendments#futility#despair#bargaining#acceptance#two weeks left#14 hours left
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House Republicans hope a strict, new voting schedule will help juice their slim majority — as only a handful of missed votes could change the game.
Why It Matters: Sickness, surgeries, funerals and other events calling House members away from D.C. will have higher stakes than ever with historically tight margins and no more proxy voting.
The significance of empty seats in the chamber was on full display during the speakership vote.
• Rep. Ken Buck (R-Colo.) flew back to D.C. after having a medical procedure to ensure Kevin McCarthy's (R-Calif.) Speaker victory.
• Rep. Wesley Hunt (R-Tex.) left a premature, newborn son in order to cast his final vote.
Between The Lines: While Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) also presided over perilously thin margins, members have been able to cast votes from home due to the pandemic. Republicans ended that option upon taking the majority.
• "Attendance will be critical with a 4 seat majority," one Republican leadership aide told Axios, adding it will be "especially tough" for Democrats to "get in the consistent habit of showing up in person after many of them proxy voted the majority of time over the last two years."
• The aide said Republicans "will stick to a strict floor schedule and not leave vote times open for hours like Democrats did, which will require timely attendance."
What They're Saying: Several top House Republicans, in statements to Axios, acknowledged attendance will be a challenge but defended ending proxy voting.
• "Of course, attendance will again be crucially important in such a closely divided body," said GOP Conference Vice Chair Mike Johnson (R-La.), "But ultimately this was the right decision for the institution and the country.”
• Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-Minn.) said it "may come as a shock to the DC bubble that we expect members to show up to work" given that "proxy voting and poor attendance were the status quo during the Democrat majority."
The Other Side: When asked about the importance of attendance and any concerns about the way Republicans would run the floor, Democratic Whip Katherine Clark (D-Mass.) told Axios in a statement:
• “As House Democrats demonstrated during the Republicans’ historically dysfunctional Speaker fight, we are united, organized, and ready to stand up for working families."
What To Watch: Whether House members' ambitions for higher office override their loyalty to their respective caucuses by calling them away from Washington.
• Just two weeks into the session, three House members have already announced Senate bids. Another is running for Chicago mayor.
• At least a half dozen other House members have expressed interest in, or are reportedly weighing, bids for Senate and Governor.
By The Numbers: Republicans currently hold their second-narrowest House majority since at least the early 1960s — beat only by the 107th Congress where the majority held just 220 seats, according to data from the Pew Research Center.
• On average, House Republicans in the 117th Congress voted by proxy 29 times, compared to an average of 54 times for Democrats, according to Brookings Institution.
• In 2020, the first year proxy voting was in place, Republicans on average missed 8.3% of votes due to large-scale boycotting of proxy voting, compared to 2.5% of votes for Democrats, according to data from Quorum.
#us politics#news#axios#2023#118th congress#us house of representatives#proxy voting#Rep. Ken Buck#rep. kevin mccarthy#Rep. Wesley Hunt#rep. nancy pelosi#rep. Mike Johnson#rep. Tom Emmer#rep. Katherine Clark#Pew Research Center#brookings institution#Quorum
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it's time for the monthly bones relisten and. hey, who's in quorums eyes? i remember Helen lost her parents and brother(?) in the cometfall. Which begs the question of how Quorum absorbs(?)people's minds. It's "over a thousand", was it all from one incident or does he gain new ones?
Is it Penny's father? Is it one of Helens own family? Someone she couldn't save that Quorum absorbed???
i have so many questions.
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I was delighted to be invited to give an artist talk about my practice and also perform at the Quorum based in the ArtsOne Building's Pinter Studio at Queen Mary University in Mile End, London. Quorum is affiliated with the School of English and Drama.
Thank you to Henry, Heath and all the Quorum Committee, and big thanks to David Wright for the technical support on lighting and sound, plus Zoom!
#Quorum#queen mary university of london#Pinter Studio#Dushume#StudioBench#NoiseSelector#DIYNomad#Noise#NoiseMusic#BassCulture#Bassshaker#Glitch#Soundart#Soundartist#LiveElectronics#DIYElectronics#ExperimentalSound#ExperimentalNoise#HarshNoise#noise music#ExperimentalMusic#diymusic#Practice#Performance
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OSSIE INVENTS SUMMER… PATTI WEARS IT British Vogue | June 1969 @ David Bailey
Look at summer through new eyes. Ossie Clark sees you in shepherdess smocks of voile, in long crepe dresses, reed-thin red or printed by Celia Birtwell. Pattie Boyd looks at it her way. All at Quorum.
#post 4 the last day of summer#pattie boyd#ossie clark#celia birtwell#david bailey#vogue#quorum#editorials#articles#fashion editorials#1960s#not my scan#pattie#1969#art#ephemera#midposts#I am going to have to rb this on main also#fashionposting
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Green Lantern #49 (February 1994)
"EMERALD TWILIGHT," Part 2! Hal Jordan has gone so far off the deep end that he's started imitating one of history's most infamous monsters: Ringo Starr. After the events of last issue, a pissed-off Hal is speeding towards planet Oa to give his bosses, the Guardians of the Universe, a piece of (what's left of) his mind. The Guardians try to stop Hal by deploying formidable Green Lanterns like, uh, this red guy and that purple girl.
Hal brutally whoops their asses and steals their GL rings to become more powerful; if he manages to nab 3597 more rings, he can become a One Man Green Lantern Corps. Hal's dangerous bling addiction even leads him to fight Lanterns he personally recruited into the Corps, like Tomar-Tu (the guy with the bird face who doesn't sound like Geoffrey Rush) and Boodikka, a fierce warrior who refuses to let go of her ring... so Hal just chops her hand off. I like to imagine a Green Lantern from some sort of phallus-shaped alien race turning around at this point and going home.
Meanwhile, in Oa, the Guardians seem pretty confident that one of their "servants" will stop Hal, but their arrogance starts evaporating with every ring he steals. Ganthet, paradoxically the least dickish of the Guardians despite being the only one wearing a ponytail, has some sort of secret plan for how they could "preserve themselves" if all else fails. At first, the others just mock him (for his plan, not the ponytail), but as Hal gets closer, they get nervous and start preparing for Ganthet's plan, whatever it is.
Hal finally reaches Oa and faces one of his best friends, Kilowog, the most distinguished trainer of the Green Lantern Corps and the Justice League's one-time handyman. Hal reminds his former mentor that he's got like ten rings by now, but Kilowog defiantly says, "Didn't I teach ya nothing? It's the warrior, not his weapons."
As it turns out, nope, it's the weapons, because Hal defeats Kilowog too within one page. With no one else around to stop him, Hal heads for the Central Power Battery -- literally, a giant battery that powers every GL ring in the universe, and now Hal wants that power to himself (I guess stealing it from here is easier than figuring out how to wear 3600 rings on his fingers). However, the Guardians still have an ace up their oversized sleeves. A hooded figure walks out of the battery, and the final page reveals that it's the other "greatest Green Lantern ever" who went rogue: Sinestro! A villain so heinous that the Guardians executed him for "crimes against the universe," causing his soul to get trapped inside the Central Battery.
Yes, the Guardians are so desperate that they're willing to give a GL ring to a guy whose name means "evil" and who has tried to kill them multiple times in the past. Interesting tactic. Will it pay off?!
NEXT ISSUE: It doesn't pay off.
Plotline-Watch:
When Sinestro is revealed at the end, we also find out that he'd been narrating the issue, which gives a double reading to lines like: "Were he not blinded by his obsession, would these acts wreak havoc on his conscience? I rather like to think so." That almost sounds like Sinestro's version of the Joker's "Far too late" moment from The Killing Joke.
The fight with Kilowog could be seen as another callback to Emerald Dawn, Hal's origin story, since that contained a montage of 'Wog training Hal when he was a rookie... by making him balance rocks and catch eggs in the air and stuff. Would have been funny if Hal and Kilowog's dramatic face-off in this issue had consisted of an egg-catching contest. To the death.
Ganthet the Least Dickish Guardian first appeared in 1992's Green Lantern: Ganthet's Tale graphic novel by Larry Niven and John Byrne, which establishes that 1) he once drove himself insane by looking at the beginning of the universe, and 2), perhaps related to the above, he has a fondness for human fashion. Ganthet had appeared in exactly two issues of the regular series before this one, but he'll appear a lot more often and have plenty more chances to show off his fashion sense after this.
Also in Ganthet's Tale, Hal learns the "forbidden knowledge" that the end and the beginning of the universe are linked together, which the other Guardians would have erased from his mind if Ganthet hadn't protected him. Not only will this little bit of trivia come in pretty handy for Hal as he starts toying with cosmic forces in the near future, but also, looking at the final panels in the graphic novel, Hal's comments about being disappointed in the Guardians' lies almost feel like a teaser for Emerald Twilight (which, again, was definitely not being planned in '92).
Question for the Hal Jordan veterans in the comments (hi, Neil): was the idea that wearing more GL rings makes you more powerful already a thing before this issue? Seems like something a villain would have exploited by now. Or did Hal change how the rings work through sheer force of will?
Guy-Watch:
Meanwhile, in Guy Gardner's corner of the GL universe: the Guy Gardner series officially becomes Guy Gardner: Warrior with #17, which sees the debut of Guy's new moniker and his shorter, non-Moe hairdo. Plus, artist Mitch Byrd!
In this issue, Guy finally works up the nerve to go back home and tell his abusive dad what he thought of him, only to find out that he died shortly after his brother Mace committed suicide. Both were assholes, but that's still pretty rough. Then, he's attacked by Militia, the armored loon we met last issue. The fight ends when Guy's yellow power ring (which, incidentally, used to belong to Sinestro) suddenly stops working, but luckily, Militia's armor happens to malfunction at the same time and he's ran over by a truck.
Huh, curious that Militia has ginger hair too. Probably a coincidence. To be continued!
#green lantern#ron marz#fred haynes#romeo tanghal#hal jordan#guardians of the universe#green lantern corps#ganthet#kilowog#sinestro#guy gardner#militia#quorum#this red guy#that purple lady#least dickish guardian is still pretty dickish btw
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Grab any Quorum bundle and receive the Fox Torch Lighter in black for free!
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Mais uma vez, ALRN não forma quórum para votar proposta sobre ICMS
Já perdeu a graça: pelo terceiro dia consecutivo, a Assembleia Legislativa do Rio Grande do Norte não teve quórum para abertura da sessão ordinária e consequente deliberação das matérias que estão em pauta. O presidente da Casa, deputado Ezequiel Ferreira (PSDB), aguardou a composição de quórum, mas não houve a confirmação da presença de oito parlamentares nesta quinta-feira (7), o que resultou…
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